Native American societies before contact | 1.2

European exploration in the Americas | 1.3

Columbian Exchange, Spanish exploration, and conquest | 1.4

Labor, slavery, and caste in the Spanish colonial system | 1.5

Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans | 1.6

Causation in Period 1 | 1.7

European colonization | 2.2

Regions of British colonies | 2.3

Transatlantic trade | 2.4

Interactions between American Indians and Europeans | 2.5

Slavery in the British colonies | 2.6

Colonial society and culture | 2.7

Comparison in Period 2 | 2.8

The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War) | 3.2

Taxation without representation | 3.3

Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution | 3.4

The American Revolution | 3.5

The influence of revolutionary ideals | 3.6

The Articles of Confederation | 3.7

The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification | 3.8

The Constitution | 3.9

Shaping a new republic | 3.10

Developing an American identity | 3.11

Movement in the early republic | 3.12

Continuity and change in Period 3 | 3.13

The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson | 4.2

Politics and regional interests | 4.3

America on the world stage | 4.4

Market Revolution: industrialization | 4.5

Market Revolution: society and culture | 4.6

Expanding democracy | 4.7

Jackson and federal power | 4.8

The development of an American culture | 4.9

The Second Great Awakening | 4.10

An age of reform | 4.11

African Americans in the early republic | 4.12

The society of the South in the early republic | 4.13

Causation in Period 4 | 4.14

Manifest Destiny | 5.2

The Mexican-American War | 5.3

The Compromise of 1850 | 5.4

Sectional conflict: regional differences | 5.5

Failure of compromise | 5.6

Election of 1860 and secession | 5.7

Military conflict in the Civil War | 5.8

Government policies during the Civil War | 5.9

Reconstruction | 5.10

Failure of Reconstruction | 5.11

Comparison in Period 5 | 5.12